Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-02-23
MILLS AND SHELTERS.

MILLS AND SHELTERS.
What is being done bjthe Various Min
h ing and Milling Companies Of Butte.
= J There is atpresent whit may be called a
q drv season n tho Mining news OF Butte.
t The compares operatin, herehavenow be-
come so Will established and permanent
" that an account OF Their proceedings from
one week to mother do not offer much Va.
riety to the reading public. There are,
however, a lew pointes to be given this
week on the tate OF affairs.
/. TIE ANACONDA.
The Anacoida mine md smelter still re-
main shut down solely q account OF . lack
OF coal. Thee was yeterday on hand at
the smelter les than 80 tons OF coal. The
smelter consumes dailyeO0 tons. and even
! when shut down uses ID forty tocs a day.
) So far it has nit been citing much ahead
on the coal supply sinc,the shut down. As
) soon as Mr.. Oily has sveral days' supply
On hand and The assurance OF q regular
provision. he will resule operations. de
is very ~anxiousto stat again, and so is
everyone who has ~inerests in Butte and
Anaconda. The runnix OF the Anaconda
means the employmet OF about 1000
men in the two places.
THE PRINCESS MPAKY
Some time ago The MSER gave notice in
it's columns of the organization in Butte OF
the Princess Gold and liver Mining and
Smelling Company. nce then it has
been widely noticed, butts yet no accurate
description of the o ents OF the COM
an interview yesterday With one OF the Of
ficers OF the company, lerned the follow.
ling facts in relation to te movements OF
the company:
The organization was lade for the pur-
pose of making capitalavailable for the
working of a group OF ines in the Pipe.
stone district. Thereare eleven proper
ties in all owned by thecompany, three Of
which carry a high graz gold and silver
ore. The other eight a. lead properties,
with sufficient gold andsilver to pay for
near at hand. The lster ores, part of
(which are galena and pa,carbonates, carry
from 80 to 80 per cent: .ad.
The Princess mine is 10 best developed
OF any in the two group and is the mine
from which the compar takes it's name.
1t is developed by q shat 22O feet deep,
following the lead. and so feet OF levels
have been run. No stopg has been done
and there are about ~onehundred tons OF
ore on the dump. IT, walls are very
smooth and regular an the lead varies
from three to i've feet in
width. The dtance between
greatest width. five feetbeipg at the bottom
ut fhl ohoft Thoro so,n wofop in thu nina ]
and the pay strea: varies from six to ;
eighteen inches in With. Between the pay !
strsak and the walls on both sides is a
gouge of tale which ! 50 soft that SO far t
there has been nonecessity for blasting. &
Six patches of the ce have been worked in
the Colorado Smeltr which yielded sepa- :
rately, per ton, ilots as follows: $80.91 {
in gold and $50 ~inilvel; $S.26 in gold and ]
$50. so: in silver; 1859 in gold and Sc in I
silver; $74.41 COL and 50 in silver; $s4.12 =
in gold and IS in liver, and lastly $49.19 a
in gold and Sc ir silver. Colonel Meader, a
the well known mining expert, has estima- v
is $685. 800 in eght in the Princess Mine at . .
=
n Their PROPERTIES. +
He also is ofthe opinion hat tho ore in Il
light in the lead properties is fully D
. kICdV III uOO !" ~ AQ1u0 VI u
which a desc, btion has been given above. Il
me best deveoped of the last mentioned n
roperties has q shaft 80 feet deep, and a T. IL
rift 80 feet long. The Pueblo Stamping is
Works havepaid 50 a ton for this ore, de-
vered in Htte, and then shipped it to al
'ueblo fo treatment, and still had a 2,
an~dsomeproft. There is an abundance ~
wood convenient to the mines. Lime h
,ck, irol ore and water are close enough Gi
hand 20 make the location very ~favora-
e for the construction of a large smelter.
esides this, there are many valuable prop.
ties adjacent, which are undeveloped, and
1ich would be tributary to a smelter il
instructed. Men are at work in the
.incess at present, retimbering the shaft,
that active operations can be resumed
the spring as early as possible. The O -
ny is in the hands of active, energetic
IN, who will push it on to success.
Since y~esterdaya,Oon no work has been &C
ne at the Alice mill or mine. Superin-
ldent Hall says that the shut down is de
casioned by lack OF salt sufficient to keep -.
ing. At the beginning of this winter he nc
ed up all his storage DON with salt, and tn
d about 100 tons laid up against arainy tn
y. The delay III freight delivery has been :
o long continued. however. and he has u
W run completely out. This is a step 3,
lich entails quite a loss on the company ru
d it's employees, but it has been unavoid- da
lie. Work will be resumed as soon as tn
1t arrives. Agent Scott informed The 81 Tn
NER that he expected a train with salt Ell
IT night. Unless they are supplied within
orthree days, the Moulton and Lex
,ton will be obliged to close down also. ]
10 Silver Bow mill shut down Wednesday -
: the lame reason.
MINING PERSONALS.
Marcus Daily has been absent all week in
y
1eorgs W. Irwin, superintendent OF the !
ny, q Silversmith, is confined to his home Fee
asprained ankle. lso
saltonCameron, whSsis interested in va tau tau
'us mins about Georgetown, will leave wit
morrow for that place. !
Patrick Clark, formerly superintendent smr
the Amy & Silversmith, left yesterday I
California and will shortly return with ing
9. Clark who has been spending the win vey
there. NJ,
sally Ra,nheim, superintendent of the Tel
'ntana Copper Company, is expected I
ok in Butte in March. He gives it as his
to start up the works OF that p
npany as soon as spring opens. =
NOTES. Eel
The Silver Bow mill is reported to have
eived some salt last evening, and as r
oke wa issuing from it's chimneys last
it is fair to suppose that it is running -
Tin. T.
he Josephine pay schultz is looking X n
dinghy well. Mr.. Grimes, who holds the
sc, is getting out about twenty tons OF III
per day, which assays from $40 to $50 .to,
day. mn
II the reverberatorv furnaces of the Par this
~s.nelter ramain shut down The frat hor
I raco; vod b1ooLo ~. just
day. The furnaces will now be started nnm,no
again Immediately. VIII,
he nroduct If the camn will he cnt down lay
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